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"For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”
It was uniformly understood by oppressive government officials....not by free thinking Americans. Isn't it strange the exact items the founding fathers said were off the table for the government are the exact freedoms they attack.
"During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
An organization telling people who live in a free society that their rights are being infringed by the government is "fraud". Telling people to go out and exercise your constitutional freedoms is somehow fraud....coming from a government official.....let that sink in...
Burger is/was wrong and Stevens is an idiot.....The Second Amendment guarantees that a citizen's right to keep and bear arms has no limitations.
Well, as someone who values the Constitution, that would be the only legitimate form of gun control I could support. And if two-thirds of the House and Senate, as well as three-quarters of the State legislatures agree, then by all means make that a reality I cannot argue with.
I ain't holding my breath though.
The Bill of Rights is a restriction on government not the people. Stevens was nominated by Republican Gerald Ford.
Perhaps banning the muzzle loader could get traction. After all, unlike the semi-automatic carbine intentionally misidentified as an assault rifle in the NYT pic at the top of the piece, that muzzle loader is actually a military weapon of war.Even with the firearms of the times only argument, you know you still wouldnt be allowed a musket. "Why would you need that? It has no place in the modern world. Thats not necessary."
This is what I tell people all the time, go ahead. Article 5 can make all of your restrict/repeal the 2A dreams a reality, I encourage you to give it a shot.
Well, as someone who values the Constitution, that would be the only legitimate form of gun control I could support. And if two-thirds of the House and Senate, as well as three-quarters of the State legislatures agree, then by all means make that a reality I cannot argue with.
I ain't holding my breath though.
Which one is that?All of that is superseded by another document, so even if the 2A were repealed through a Constitutional amendment it would have no effect on the right to keep and bear arms.
Both parties are for BIG GOVTThe Bill of Rights is a restriction on government not the people. Stevens was nominated by Republican Gerald Ford.
Perhaps I am too optimistic, but I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is respected enough that we wouldn't have to worry. Otherwise, we are a minority of opinion in a Republic that has confused it's citizens that it is a Democracy. And that's just bananas.Most states, pretty close to 3/4 have large cities that are mostly liberal enclaves, the states Trump won he won by a slim margin. You need 13 states to say no, the Northeast and the coasts are gone, Florida is gone Texas is close to it. We would need flyover states to say no, most if not all would
Both parties are for BIG GOVT
A repeal of any of the BOR voids the social contract signed by the states that formed this Republic.
Now I want an 80% musket...
Which one is that?
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